Coin-controlled vending-machine.



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COIN CONTROLLED VENDING MACHINE.

(Application filed Sept. 10, 1900.)

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PATENT OFFICE.

JOSEPH AARONS, OF DETROIT, MICHIGAN.

COIN-CONTROLLED VENDING-MACHINE.

SPEGIEIGATIQN forming part of Letters Patent No. 679,871ydated August 6, 1901.

Application filed September 10,1900. Serial No. 29,485. (No model.)

To all whom it may concern.- Be it known that I, JOSEPH AARONS, a subject of the Queen of Great Britain, residing.

at Detroit, county of Wayne,'State of Michigan, have invented a certain new and useful Improvement in Coin Controlled Vending Mechanism; and I declare the following to be a full, clear, and exact description of the invention, such as will enable others skilled in the art to which it appertains to make and use the same, reference being had to the accompanying drawings, which form a part of this specification. I 1

, My invention relates to certain new and useful improvements in coin-controlled vending mechanism;,and it consists of the combination and arrangement of devices hereinafter described and claimed, and illustrated in the accompanying drawings, forming a part of this application, in which,

Figure 1 is a view in side elevation, showing one side of the inclosing case removed. Fig. 2 is a view in vertical section on the line2 2,- Fig. l, the view being at right angles to Fig. 1. Fig. 3 is a vertical section on the line 3 3, Fig. 2. Fig. 4 is a detail view showing the coineontrolled wheel withthe adjacent plunger. Fig. 5 is a detail view, in vertical section, showing the lower end of the storage-chamber and the delivery-slide. Fig. 6 is a detail view of one face of the coin-actuated wheel.

. The object of my invention is to provide a coin-controlled vending mechanism of simple construction whereby one or more articles of merchandise or their equivalent will always be discharged when actuated by a coin.

I carry outmy invention as follows:

In the drawings, a representsa suitable inclosing case within which is located certain portions of the mechanism. A coin-runway is indicated at b. Above the runway is a coin-actuated wheel 0, which may be located inside of an auxiliary case d. This wheel 0 is provided on its periphery with suitable coin-receptacles, (indicated at e.) The case d, it will be understood, is provided with a suitable opening (not shown) through which a coin may be inserted to actuate the wheel c, the wheel discharging the coin into the runway through an opening f in the case a.

It will be observed that when a coin is introduced in thewheel c said wheel will be acter above referred to.

counterbalance the rod 7;.

thereby rotated until the coinis discharged therefrom into said runway. The wheel 0 is preferably provided with numerals upon one of its faces, the adjacent face of the cover at being transparent, the transparent face bearing upon its surface any desired character or index 0'.

the wheel and noting the number on the wheel stopping adjacent to the index char- Said wheel is mounted upon a shaft, upon which shaft is located a hub g, bearing upon its periphery a series of sockets h, which may be of varying depths, as indicated more particularly in Fig.

4, into which sockets a plunger-rod i is arranged to be engaged and to be retracted therefrom, said plunger-rod being engaged at its lower end with the crank-arm j upon a shaft lo, provided with a weighted arm Z to Two of the socketsh, as already noted, are preferably of equal depth, while the other of said sockets is of greater depththan the other two.

The operation of said crank-arm j will be more fully hereinafter explained.

At the base of the runway is an oscillatory arm m upon a shaft 41, provided at its opposite end with a' cam 19, arranged to be held in locked position by a pawl-arm q upon a shaft r. The shaft r is provided at its opposite end with a crank-arm 8, provided with an arm t, projecting'into the path of the arm m upon the shaft or in such a manner that when a coin (indicated in Fig. l at u) is discharged from the base of the runway it will rest in the arms on and against the arm 25. The shaft n may be rotated when free to move by any suitable means, as by a crank, (indicated in Fig. 2 at c.) When a coin is discharged from the runway and the arm m is elevated by means of the crank o, the crank 25 is immediately tilted, carrying the pawl q therewith and releasing said pawl from the cam p, the pawl riding upon the periphery of the cam on the further movement of said cam until returned to locked position. The pawl q may engage a locking-shoulder upon an actuating-spring .2, one end of said spring being shown engaged upon a stud,(.indicated at the numeral 1,) the'opposite end of the spring being wound about the shaft y. wind the spring upon its shaft, the shaft may be-provided with an eccentric arm 2, connected by a chain or-c'ahle. 3 with an eccentric arm 4 upon the shaft n, sothat when the handle or crank o is moved in the right direction the spring z is wound upon its shaft in readiness to exertits tension tooperate other parts of the mechanism. The actuati ng mechanism operated by the spring .2, herewith shown, consists of suitable clockwork,

that being shown herewith comprising a gear 5 upon the shaft y, meshing with a suitable train of gears, as with a pinion 6 upon a shaft- 7, provided with a gear 8, meshing witha pinion?) upon a shaft 10, provided with a gear 11, meshing with a gear 12 upon a shaft 13, provided with a disk 14, constructed with a recess 15, the gear 11 also meshing with a pinion 16 upona shaft 17, provided with a disklS. Upon the shaft is is a segmental gear 19,with which is engageable a pawl 20,. and the gear 11 is provided with a pin 21 to engage the teeth of the segmental gear 19.

To actuatethe pawl 20, theshaft y is provided with an arm 22, which when the shaft y is rotated will strike against the adjacent end of the pawl 20 to disengage the pawl from the segmental gear 19. When said pawl is disengaged from the segmental gear, the spring 0 will actuate the armj to lift the rod 11 into engagement with the periphery of the .hub g. When the upward movement of the rod 2' ceases, the corresponding movement of the segmental gear 19 must also cease.

To look the clockwork mechanism when the pawl q is disengaged from the lockingarm 10, the pawlq is provided with a pin 32 to engage in the recess 15 of the disk 19. To lock the clockwork mechanism from operation by the-spring 0', the disk 18 may be provided with a pin 33, engageable by a pawl-arm 3% upon the shaft 70, the pawl 3i being disengage'd from the pin 33 upon a corresponding operation of the shaft 70. Y

It will be understood that by turning the crank y in the proper direction its shaft 17. is correspondingly rotated, and by means of the chain 3, connecting the shaft n with theshaft y, said shaft iscorrespondingly rotated, carrying with it the arm 22 against the adjacent end of the pawl 20, disengaging said pawl from the segmental gear, leaving .the segmental ger-rod 11 simply contacts with the outer pe-- from the machine.

chamber 23.

gear 19 free'to-be moved by the spring 0 carrying thev rod 2 upward. When said rod has reached the limit of its upward movement, the spring z upon the shaft g exerts its tension to rotate the shaft 10 through the corresponding train of gears, thereby actuating the gear 11, causing the pin 21 to engage the teeth of the segmental gear 19 to restore said segmental At the same time the pawl 34 is restored to locked positionto lock the train of gears. If the rod '5 has suitably contacted with the periphery of, the hub g, the segmental gear 19 is so constructed or turned that it may simply oscillate the disks onestep, or, in other words, one step or one tooth. If the rod 1' enters one of the sockets h of equal depth, the segmental gear 19 is so timed as to advance two steps or two teeth,

and if the rod 1' enters the deepest socket in i the hub the-segmental gear 19 is so timed as to advance three'steps or the distance of three teeth,and so on. At the same time the pawl 34 has'been carried forward'a corresponding distance being rigidly attached to the shaft k. Onthe reverse movement of the gear 11 saidgear would be required to make one, two,

or three revolutions, as the case may be, before the pawl 34: will be restored to locked position. Thus the distance which the rod 11 will rise willobviously be governed by the contact of its upper end with-the outer periphery of the hub g or its entrance into one of its sockets h in said periphery, the distance which said rod 'i may rise governing, by mechanism hereinafter explained, the numberof articles of merchandise to be discharged The whole train of gears hereinbefore described is thus governed by the movement of the rod 1'. Should the upper end of the rod 1' simply contact with the outer periphery of said hub,said train of gears would make one revolution. Should the upper end of the rod 1' enter either of the sockets h of vequal depth, the train of gears would make two revolutions. or shouldthe upper'end ofthe rod 11 enter the deepest one of the sockets h said train of gears would make three revolutions to restore the pawl 34E intolocked po- 'sition.

The numeral 23 indicates a storage-chamber to receive desired articles of merchandise or checks (indicated at 24) or their equivalent to be discharged from the machine.

' ,A bell-crank lever 21 is provided, with one endof which is engaged a discharge-slide 25, made reciprocatory in the lower end of the The case of said storage-charm ber is provided with a discharge-opening 26, the slide 25 being preferably provided with a shoulder 27 to engage an article of merchandise or check or its equivalent to force it out of the storage-chamber. The opposite end of the bell-crank lever is constructed with an elongated orifice 28, in which is engaged a pin 29 upon a disk 30 upon the shaft 10.'

The, parts are so adjusted that if the plunthe bellcrank.

evegerr p 8 ripheryofth e hub the disk 30 will make one revolution, thereby giving one movement to Should, however, the plun ger-rod i enter into one of the shallowerrecesse's in the hub, two revolutions of the disk 30 will be permitted, thereby twice actuating the bell-crank, and should the plunger'rod enter into the deeper recess of the hub-the disk 30 will be permitted to have'three revolutions, thereby thrice actuating thebellcrank. It will be seen that in any event the bell-crank is actuated once to discharge one;

piece of merchandise or its equivalent. There being two shallower recesses in the hub and one deeper recess, there is double the liability of the plunger entering intoone ofth'e shallower recesses than of the plunger entering the deeper recesses. shall enter either the shallower recesses or the deeper recess of the hub depends upon the amount of rotation of the coin-actuated wheel, in any event the machine discharging one piece of merchandise or its equivalent, while there are two chances of its discharging two pieces of merchandise or their equivalent to one chance of the machine discharging three piece of merchandise or their equivalent.

Various shafts embodied in the mechanism within the case a are supported in a suitable framework 31.

To hold the tension of the spring 2, the shaft 3 is provided with a ratchet-Wheel 35.

36 is an adjacent pawl to engage wheel 35.

The hub g may be made integral with the wheel 0 or rotatable simultaneously therewith. The hub may be of any desired diam eter relative to the diameter of the wheel, or instead of a laterally-projecting hub the Wheel itself might be constructed with a recessed periphery projecting laterally from the coinreceptacles c, with which the plunger 2' may engage. The plunger 2' may be provided with a turnbuckle device or its equivalent for the adjustment of the plunger, as indicated at 37. The shaft a, provided with the crank o, may be termed the governing-shaft.

It will be obvious that instead of forming the hub g with the recesses h said hub might be constructed with outward projections to vary the reciprocation of the plunger-rod. So, also, instead of the plunger-rod engaging the periphery of the hub underneath it might be brought upward to engage the periphery of the hub thereabove, these obvious changes being but the reverse of those heretofore described. 7

What I claim as my invention is- 1. In a coin-con trolled vending mechanism,

a storage-chamber,delivery mechanism there-- for, a coin-actuated wheel provided with a Whether the plunger lhub havingfrecesses of different depths upon lits periphery, and means cooperating with ithe coin-actuated wheel to "govern the operation of thedelivery mechanism. a

v 8. Ina coin-controlled-vendingmechanism, Qa coin-actuated wheel provided with a governing device, a reciprocatory' plunger engageablc with said device, means to reciprogcate said plunger, a storage -'cham'ber, and

mechanism governedbysaid wheelto deliver articles from said chamber.

1 4. Inacoin controlledvendingmechanism,

a coin-actuated wheel, a storage-chamber, de-

livery mechanism therefor at the base'of saidi chamber, and a reciprocatory plunger got Zerned by said wheel to govern the'deliv'ery' mechanism.

, 5. In a coin-controlled vending mechanism,

a coin-actuated wheel, a storage-chamber, de-

livery mechanism therefor, and means codpcrating with the coin-actuated wheel to govern the operation of the delivery mechanism.

6. In a coin-controlled vending mechanism, a rotatable coin-actuated wheel, a storagechamber, delivery mechanism therefor at the base of said chamber, and means cooperating with the coin-actuated wheel to govern the operation of the delivery mechanism, said mechanism constructed to deliver one or more articles from said storage-chamber, the number of articles so delivered being governed by the rotation of said wheel.

7. In a coin-controlled vending-machine, a storage-chamber, delivery mechanism to discharge merchandise or its equivalent from the storage-chamber, a rotary coin-actuated for, a reciprocatory plunger governed'by said wheel, means to elevate the plunger, and means to move the plunger out of engagement with said hub.

10. In a coin-controlled vending mechanism, the combination of a storage-chamber, delivery mechanism therefor, a coin actuated wheel provided with a governing device,a re ciprocatory plunger governed by said Wheel, a coin-runway, a governing crank-shaft pro vided with an arm adjacent to the base of the runway, an additional crank-shaft provided with an arm adjacent to the base of the runway, and with a pawl to lock the governingshaft, a train of gears to actuate the plunger,

to actuate said crank-shaft to elevate the plunger, a gear upon said crank-shaft, and

means to actuatev said gearto restore the plunger to normal position.

12. In acoin-co'ntrolled vending mechanism, the combination of a coin-controlled wheel, a storage-chamber, delivery mechanism therefor, a plungergoverned by said Wheel, a crank-shaft to carry the plunger,

means to actuate the crank-shaft to elevate the plunger, a gear upon said crank-shaft, meanslto actuate said; gear to restorethe plunger to normal position, and means to lock the crank-shaftEin position.

13. In acoin-controlled-vending mechanism, the combination of a coin-controlled 'wheel, a storage-chamber, delivery mechah:

ism therefor, aplunger governed by said wheel, a crank-shaft carrying the plunger,

"the plunger,additional means to actuate the crank-shaft to depress the plunger, 2. bellcrank, a delivery-slide engaged with one'end of the bell-crank, a disk eccentrically engaged'with the outer end of the bell-crank, *and mechanism to actuate said disk.

14. The combination with a coin-actuated wheel, of a coin-runway, a plunger governed by said wheel,a storage-chamber, mechanism to deliver articles from the storage-chamber, m'eans'to actuate said mechanism, a governing-shaft provided with an arm adjacent to sthe base of the runway, an additional shaft {provided with acrank-armv arranged in the {path' of "the previously-mentioned, armand :spaced therefrom to receive a coin therebetween, means to lock said shafts, and a train iof gears to operate the delivery device.

. In testimony whereofI' signthis specifica- ;ti0n inthe presence of two witnesses.

JOSEPH AARONS.

Witnesses:

N. S. WRIGHT,

M. HICKEY. 

